That prompted Sulzberger to describe the meeting to the Associated Press, while complaining about Trump’s criticisms:
The publisher of the New York Times said Sunday he “implored” President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting this month to reconsider his broad attacks on journalists, calling the president’s anti-press rhetoric “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”
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Sulzberger, who succeeded his father as publisher on Jan. 1, said his main purpose for accepting the meeting was to “raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.”
I suspect the president was more concerned about the press’s deeply troubling anti-Trump rhetoric. Trump has a considerably better case.
Sulzberger said he told Trump that while the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful,…
Heh. Recall that it was leftists who first used the phrase “fake news” in complaints about Facebook stories during the election. Trump has now co-opted “fake news” and made it his own.
…”I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people.’ I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.”
Apparently the AP did not seek comment from Steve Scalise, Sarah Sanders or Kirstjen Nielsen....
Again, he was not referring to the press generally, but to news outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post that habitually spread falsehoods about his administration.
Major elements of the press have a problem. They have made themselves part of the Democratic Party’s “Resistance” to President Trump. They have attacked the president in the most intemperate, and often false, terms. (See, for example, pretty much any New York Times editorial.) Naturally, he doesn’t like it and he hits them back. They deserve it, and in his conflicts with reporters and editors, Trump is more often right than wrong.
If reporters at papers like the Times don’t like being criticized by the president, they should secede from the Resistance and go back to practicing journalism. If they still remember how.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/new-york-times-whines-stop-attacking-us.php
The publisher of the New York Times said Sunday he “implored” President Donald Trump at a private White House meeting this month to reconsider his broad attacks on journalists, calling the president’s anti-press rhetoric “not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.”
***
Sulzberger, who succeeded his father as publisher on Jan. 1, said his main purpose for accepting the meeting was to “raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.”
I suspect the president was more concerned about the press’s deeply troubling anti-Trump rhetoric. Trump has a considerably better case.
Sulzberger said he told Trump that while the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful,…
Heh. Recall that it was leftists who first used the phrase “fake news” in complaints about Facebook stories during the election. Trump has now co-opted “fake news” and made it his own.
…”I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists ‘the enemy of the people.’ I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.”
Apparently the AP did not seek comment from Steve Scalise, Sarah Sanders or Kirstjen Nielsen....
Again, he was not referring to the press generally, but to news outlets like the New York Times and the Washington Post that habitually spread falsehoods about his administration.
Major elements of the press have a problem. They have made themselves part of the Democratic Party’s “Resistance” to President Trump. They have attacked the president in the most intemperate, and often false, terms. (See, for example, pretty much any New York Times editorial.) Naturally, he doesn’t like it and he hits them back. They deserve it, and in his conflicts with reporters and editors, Trump is more often right than wrong.
If reporters at papers like the Times don’t like being criticized by the president, they should secede from the Resistance and go back to practicing journalism. If they still remember how.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/07/new-york-times-whines-stop-attacking-us.php
